In an interview that aired earlier Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Donald Trump Jr. said Kathy Griffin “deserves everything that’s coming to her,” after she posed for a photograph with a bloody mask meant to simulate the president’s severed head.

On some level, the sentiments of Eric and Don Jr. are understandable. We’re talking about their father, after all, so a little righteous indignation is to be expected. If all they did was lash out, they might be entitled to a pass.

But their moralizing about over-the-line rhetoric is hypocritical.

There is another major disconnect in the Trumps’ thinking: They seem to be under the impression that because they do some good things, they ought to be immune to criticism for doing bad things.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received praise from his son Eric Trump who said America needs a president “who understands the art of a deal.” (The Washington Post)

“I’ve raised $16.3 million for the greatest hospital in the world — that’s St. Jude,” Eric Trump told Hannity. “And I get attacked for it.”

By “attacked,” he meant scrutinized by Forbes magazine, which reported Tuesday that Eric Trump’s annual charity golf tournament doubles as a revenue stream for Trump family businesses. Although Eric Trump claimed that his family donates use of the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., public records show that the club has accepted $1.2 million in payments over the years.

And while donors to the Eric Trump Foundation were told their money was going to help sick kids, more than $500,000 was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses.

All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors.

Two things can be true at once: The Trumps can do good charitable work and put money in their own pockets. They can be targets of unacceptable rhetoric and dispense some of their own.

What they seem to want, however, is all the praise and sympathy that comes with the first half of those equations and none of the criticism that comes with the second.